tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post6215788297236039928..comments2015-03-02T14:50:25.238-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 1279: Back to yesterdayPappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-92086065568640031252012-12-13T18:35:18.038-08:002012-12-13T18:35:18.038-08:00Good memory, rnigma...I had totally spaced out Tex...Good memory, rnigma...I had totally spaced out Tex Blaisdell&#39;s time on LOA. It must not have impressed me much. I remember the Starr Annie revival because I clipped the first year or so of dailies and Sundays. Someday I&#39;ll mount an archaeological expedition into my basement and perhaps I&#39;ll unearth them along with everything else of interest I have tucked away in boxes left unopened for years.<br /><br />I do remember the Rick Fletcher Dick Tracy, and still have a couple of paperback reprints of the Fletcher/Collins team-up.Pappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-32409590804600192952012-12-12T16:25:17.946-08:002012-12-12T16:25:17.946-08:00I do recall after Harold Gray died, the Trib hired...I do recall after Harold Gray died, the Trib hired Tex Blaisdell to take over Little Orphan Annie, and he had her tooling around in a VW bus with some hippie types - I guess they were trying a 180° turn away from Gray&#39;s conservatism - but Tex&#39;s tenure wasn&#39;t long and the Trib kept Annie alive in reruns throughout the &#39;70s till they asked Starr to draw new strips. Starr mimicked Gray&#39;s style (the empty eyes, the shredded wheat crosshatching) while opening it up a bit. <br />This was about the same time Chester Gould retired from &quot;Dick Tracy&quot; and that strip had new life breathed into it with Rick Fletcher&#39;s art and Max Allan Collins&#39;s scripts.rnigmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01370724366178429029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-19506110820262251332012-12-12T09:29:46.007-08:002012-12-12T09:29:46.007-08:00Kirk, I agree with you, and the reason is that whi...Kirk, I agree with you, and the reason is that while I read Harold Gray&#39;s <i>Little Orphan Annie</i>, I thought Gray&#39;s narrative plodding, which Starr&#39;s was not. <br /><br />Starr&#39;s <i>Annie</i> was probably more the syndicate&#39;s response to the Broadway show, cashing in on that, than re-creating Gray&#39;s classic strip.Pappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-6190829976755851522012-12-12T07:59:19.164-08:002012-12-12T07:59:19.164-08:00I normally frown on legacy strips, but I enjoyed L...I normally frown on legacy strips, but I enjoyed Leonard Starr&#39;s version of Little Orphan Annie when it ran in my local paper in the 1980s. Nice to see another aspect of his career. Kirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155991693956178030noreply@blogger.com